Twine-holder.



No. 737,957. PA TENTED SEPT. 1, 1903.. G. L. PETERSON & M. 0. THOMPSON.

' TWINE HOLDER. APPLIQATIONHPIILED APR; 4, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS LUOIUS IETERSON AND MARTIN ORLANDO THOMPSON, OF

SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA.

TWINE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,957, datedSeptember 1, 1903.

Application filed April 4, 1903. Serial No. 161,062. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, CORNELIUS LUCIUS PE- TERSON and MARTIN ORLANDOTHOMPSON, citizens of the United States, and residents of Sioux Falls,in the county of Minnehaha and State of South Dakota, have invented anew and Improved Twine-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in twine-holders, an object beingto provide a twine-holder of simple construction designed to besuspended over a counter or the like and in which the twine will notbecome snarled or twisted.

lVe will describe a twine-holder embodying our invention and then pointout the novel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in'both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a twineholder embodying our invention,and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation thereof.

The frame of the twine-holder comprises a top bar 1, a bottom bar 2, andside bars 3 4:. The parts 1 2 may be made of wood and the bars 3 4t ofsuitable metal. The bar 3is here shown as made of angle metal, and thebar 4 is made in the form of a boxing'open at the top and having slots 5in its opposite walls for receiving and guiding the wings (3' of atension-weight 7.

Extended upward from the bottom bar 2 is a standard 8, upon which a ballof twine as is designed to be placed. This standard as here shown is inthe form of a wire loop. The cord from the ball passes up throughguide-eyes El 10, attached to the under side of the bar 1, and thenceover a roller 11, arranged in an opening 12, formed in said top bar. Thejournals of these rollers have bearings in the side walls of the opening12, and these bearings open outward, as clearly indicated in thedrawings, so that the roller may be readily removed for convenience inplacing a new ball of twine in the holder. From the roller 11 the twinepasses through guide-eyes 13 14 on the upper side of the bar 1 andthence through an eye 15 in the upper end of the weight 7, from which itpasses through a guide-eye 16, extended upward from the boxlike bar a,and thence down through guideeyes 17 18, arranged, respectively, at theupper and lower portions of said bar 4.

The bar 1 is'provided with an eye 19, that may be attached to a hook inaceiling or to a chain or the like suspended from the ceiling. In theoperation when the cord is drawn out for tying a bundle or package thetensionweight 7 will be drawn to the upper end of the box-like bar 4:,and then after severing the cord the end will be drawn upward by theweight 7 moving downward. Of course the length of movement of thisweight 7 will be sufficient only to move the end of the cord to a pointabove the counter where it will be out of the way, but yet in easyreach.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent A twine-holder, comprising a frame having ahollow side member open at the top, a tension-weight in said hollowmember and having an eye through which the twine may pass, guide-eyes inthe under side of the top member of the frame, a roller removably placedin said top member, guide-eyes above and at opposite sides of the hollowside member, a guide eye near the upper end of said hollow side member,and an eye at the lowerend of said member.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CORNELIUS LUCIUS PETERSON.

. MARTIN ORLANDO THOMPSON.

\Vitnesses:

E1) C. ZIMMERMAN, T. CHAS. SHIPLEY.

